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οἰκέτης

First declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: οἰκέτης οἰκέτου

Structure: οἰκετ (Stem) + ης (Ending)

Etym.: oi)ke/w

Sense

  1. a house-slave, menial

Declension

First declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative οἰκέτης οἰκέτᾱ οἰκέται
Genitive οἰκέτου οἰκέταιν οἰκετῶν
Dative οἰκέτῃ οἰκέταιν οἰκέταις
Accusative οἰκέτην οἰκέτᾱ οἰκέτᾱς
Vocative οἰκέτα οἰκέτᾱ οἰκέται

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • εἶπε δὲ Ἰούδασ. τί ἀντεροῦμεν τῷ κυρίῳ, ἢ τί λαλήσομεν, ἢ τί δικαιωθῶμεν̣ ὁ Θεὸσ δὲ εὗρε τὴν ἀδικίαν τῶν παίδων σου. ἰδού ἐσμεν οἰκέται τῷ κυρίῳ ἡμῶν, καὶ ἡμεῖσ καὶ παῤ ᾧ εὑρέθη τὸ κόνδυ. (Septuagint, Liber Genesis 44:16)
  • διότι οἰκέται μού εἰσιν οὗτοι, οὓσ ἐξήγαγον ἐκ γῆσ Αἰγύπτου. οὐ πραθήσεται ἐν πράσει οἰκέτου. (Septuagint, Liber Leviticus 25:42)
  • ὅτι ἐμοὶ οἱ υἱοὶ Ἰσραὴλ οἰκέται εἰσί, παῖδέσ μου οὗτοί εἰσιν, οὓσ ἐξήγαγον ἐκ γῆσ Αἰγύπτου. ἐγὼ Κύριοσ ὁ Θεὸσ ὑμῶν. (Septuagint, Liber Leviticus 25:55)
  • καὶ ἐρεῖσ τῷ υἱῷ σου. οἰκέται ἦμεν τῷ Φαραὼ ἐν γῇ Αἰγύπτῳ, καὶ ἐξήγαγεν ἡμᾶσ Κύριοσ ἐκεῖθεν ἐν χειρὶ κραταιᾷ καὶ ἐν βραχίονι ὑψηλῷ. (Septuagint, Liber Deuteronomii 6:21)
  • καὶ εἶπαν πρὸσ Ἰησοῦν. οἰκέται σού ἐσμεν. καὶ εἶπε πρὸσ αὐτοὺσ Ἰησοῦσ. πόθεν ἐστὲ καὶ πόθεν παραγεγόνατε̣ (Septuagint, Liber Iosue 9:13)

Synonyms

  1. a house-slave

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Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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